PHOTOSYNTHESIS:

FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS TO GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Photosynthesis

Volume 2

Edited byArt van der Est and Doug Bruce

TIB/UB Hannover 89

127 599 967

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME 2

LIGHT, REDOX AND METABOLIC REGULATION: LIGHT REACTIONS

Characterization and function ofthe six bacteriophytochromes of Rhodopseudomonas palustris

Eric Giraud et al 535

State-changes realizing adaptation to stress as the result of an optimized redistribution of functional microstates

Reto J. Strasser and Merope Tsimilli-Michael 537

LHCII protein phosphorylation in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants deficient in non-photochemical quenching

Hanna-Leena Breitholtz et al 540

The nabl gene product is important for light-induced state transitions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

J. H. Mussgnug et al 542

Role of Anabaena flavodoxin hydrophobic residues in protein-protein interaction and electron transfer to

ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase

Susana Frago et al 544

Specificity for the coenzyme in ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase: an attempt to create a NAD+/H dependent enzyme

Marta Martinez-Julvez et al 547

A PSI Subunit, PsaK2, is involved in the regulation of state transition in Synechocystis PCC 6803

Tamaki Fujimori et al 549

NaCl-induced redox-independent phosphorylation of light harvesting chlorophyll a/b proteins in Dunaliella salina

thylakoid membranes

Xian-De Liu and Yun-Gang Shen 551

Carotenoid excited state dynamics in the orange carotenoid protein from cyanobacteria

Tomas Polivka et al 553

Photosynthetic redox regulation of Arabidopsis nuclear genes

Mirva Piippo et al 555

Ferredoxin NADP+ oxidoreductase in different domains of the higher plant thylakoid membrane

Marjaana Suorsa et al 557

Arabidopsis genes involved in chloroplast NDH activity

Toshiharu Shikanai et al 559

Photosystem I and the fluorescence induction kinetics in vivo: the effects of DBMIB and methylviologen

Gert Schansker et al 561

Statistical properties of parameters evaluated from the O-J-I-P chlorophyll a fluorescence transients and their

changes upon high temperature stress

Dusan Lazar et al 563

Irreversible changes in photosynthetic rate induced by heating above 40 °C

Radek Kaiia et al 566

Redox state analysis of the plastoquinone-pool in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals unexpected changes under

different light conditions

Jerzy Kruk and Stanislaw Karpinski 568

Probing electron fluxes through photosystem I in cucumber leaf discs

Wah S. Chow and Alexander B. Hope570

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In vivo estimations of lumen acidification and qE response using calibrated electrochromic shift assays

Kenji Takizawa et al 573

Modulation of energy dependent quenching (qE) by variable conductivity of the CFo-CFi ATP synthase to protons and

differential pinf partitioning

Thomas J. Avenson et al 575

Blue light induced fluorescence quenching in a PSII-less mutant of synechocystis PCC 6803

Matt Scott et al 577

Thermo-optically driven reversible reorganizations in LHCII. Significance of thermal instability, role of

LHCII-only domains in thylakoids

Jens Kai Holm et al 579

PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACCLIMATION: ECOPHYSIOLOGY, DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS

Nonphotochemical quenching is induced differently under high-light and low-ci conditions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Masakazu Iwai and Jun Minagawa 582

The use of PSII activity of Spirodela oligorrhiza plants as an indicator for water toxicity

Beata Z. Romanowska-Duda et al 585

Growth and photosynthesis of Chlamydomonas sp. in a pH range of 1-8

Elly Spijkerman 587

Do red carotenoids protect photosynthetic tissues by a green-light filtering mechanism?

Koldobika Hormaetxe et al 590

Can temperature-light-interactions explain site-specific differences of the spring recovery of photosynthesis in

boreal Scots pine?

Albert Porcar-Castell et al 591

Plant responses to water stress as affected by abscisic acid and benzyladenine

J. Pospisilova et al 593

Photosynthesis limitation in Quercus ilex under drought: stomatal and mesophyll conductance, and

leaf morphology contribution

Karen Pena-Rojas et al 595

The photosynthetic performances of chilling-resistant plants are supported by elevating the pool size of the xanthophyll

cycle pigments in response to cold stress

Hyun-Ju Kim et al 598

Impact of drought and heat stress on the photosynthetic apparatus of Quercus pubescens: a field studyPierre Haldimann et al 601

Slowly reversible conversion of lutein-epoxide into lutein in Inga leaves: a means of quick photoacclimation?

Shizue Matsubara et al 604

Effect of natural stress interaction on plant photochemical PSII efficiency: ecophysiological approach of key events

and mechanisms detection

Marian Brestic and Katarina Olsovska 606

Photosynthetic acclimation in rice leaves to free-air C02 enrichment (FACE) related to both RuBP carboxylation

limitation and RuBP regeneration limitation

Gen-Yun Chen et al 608

The chloroplast as target of biotic stress

Carlola Sajnani et al 610

Chlorophyll a fluorescence imaging of grassland species in a warmer climate

Birgit Gielen et al 612

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Genome diversification in marine cyanobacteria: implications for photosynthetic physiology and environmental stress

response mechanisms

Claire S. Ting et al 614

Induction of C4-photosynthesis enzymes in C3-plants

Novruz Guliyev et al 616

Effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on the Dl protein of natural phytoplankton communities

Josee Nina Bouchard et al 618

Mechanisms of temperature acclimation for photosynthesis in spinach leaves

Wataru Yamori et al 621

Short-term exposure to elevated C02 causes downwards regulation of photosynthesis in black spruce seedlings

Danielle A. Way and Rowan F. Sage 624

The balance between capacities of RuBP carboxylation and RuBP regeneration: interspecific variation in response to

seasonal environment

Yusuke Onoda et al 626

Photosynthetic light acclimation of tree seedlings to artificial gap formations in a cool-temperate

deciduous forest

Riichi Oguchi et al 628

Effects of water stress on photochemistry and on the thermotolerance of photosystem II in wheat plants

Mubariz Ismayilov and Jalal Aliyev631

Nitrogen partitioning in the photosynthetic apparatus of Plantago asiatica leaves acclimated to different temperature

and light conditions

Kouki Hikosaka632

Photoinhibition in evergreens: involvement of sustained thermal dissipation and PSII protein phosphorylation

Barbara Demmig-Adams et al634

Optimal leaf nitrogen content of an evergreen understorey plant in a temperate climate

Onno Muller et al636

OJIP chlorophyll a fluorescence measurement to assess the effect of pesticide-copper mixtures on duckweed photosynthesis

Philippe Eullaffroy et al 638

Inorganic carbon repletion alters steady-state acclimation to low temperature and high light in the cyanobacterium

Synechococcus elongatus

D. A. Campbell et al 640

Effects of polyploidy on photosynthetic performance in leaves of Phlox drummondii

Poonam Vyas et al643

Carbon status constrains light acclimation in Synechococcus elongatus (PCC 7942)

Tyler D. B. MacKenzie et al 645

Diversification and plasticity of C4 photosynthetic pathway in Eleocharis (Cyperaceae)

Joao Barroca et al646

Chromium (VI) promotes photosystem II activity in Brassica juncea

Shipra Gupta et al649

Compatible solutes curtail oxygenase activity of rubisco as a strategy for stress adaptation

P. Pardha Saradhi et al651

SUGAR SIGNALLING: PHOTOSYNTHESIS, HORMONES AND DEVELOPMENT

ABA response in C02 insensitive Arabidopsis mutants, htl and ht2

Mimi Hashimoto et al653

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Purification and characterization of recombinant ethylene receptor ETR1 from Arabidopsis thaliana

Jan Voet-van-Vormizeele and Georg Groth 655

Comparison of transcript profiles following short term exposure of Arabidopsis to elevated CO2 or glucose

Sylva L. Donaldson and John R. Coleman 657

Differences between sink and source leaves in carbohydrate repression of photosynthesis in bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

Takao Araya et al 660

Externally supplied sucrose acts as an alternative to photosynthates to support the root growth in common bean

(Phaseolus vulgaris L.) dwarf plants

Muhammad J. Iqbal et al 662

Diel patterns of leaf |4C-Export and of main and lateral shoot growth for Flaveria linearis with altered leaf sucrose-starch

partitioning

Evangelos Demosthenes Leonardos et al 664

LIGHT, REDOX AND METABOLIC REGULATION: DARK REACTIONS

Physiological function of CP12 involved in regulation of the Calvin cycle in cyanobacteria

Masahiro Tamoi et al 667

Development into the functional chloroplast involves a receptor-like kinase in golgi vesicles in Arabidopsis

Shingo Goto et al 669

Target proteins of chloroplast thioredoxins - efficient survey and the confirmation

Ken Motohashi et al 671

Biochemical evidence of redox regulation of phosphoeno/pyruvate carboxylase kinase

Yuhei Tsuchida et al 674

Functions of phycobilisomes in delivery of excitation energy to photosystems I and II and carotenoid-induced protection of

phycobilisom.es against photobleaching

Igor Stadnichuk et al 675

PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACCLIMATION: MECHANISMS AND GENE EXPRESSION

Isolation of mutants in photosystem I degradation

Jianying Zhang and Kevin Redding 678

The plastid targeted GTP-binding protein, AtOBGl is essential for embryo development in Arabidopsis

Tetsuya Umeda et al 680

Probing DNA and RNA structures in the presence of photosynthetic pigmentsHeider-Ali Tajmir-Riahi et al 682

High-light-dependent expression of Lhc-like genes encoding distant relatives of light-harvesting chlorophyll-a/i proteins in

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Flaruhiko Teramoto et al 684

Salt-induced response in ascorbate peroxidase and catalase in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Jeung-Suk Koo et a] 686

Light-induced adaptation processes within photosystem II from spinach

Klaus-D. Irrgang et al 689

Global regulation of photosynthesis genes in response to oxidative stress in the cyanobacterium Synechocyslis sp. PCC 6803

Abhay K. Singh et al 691

Screening for Arabidopsis thaliana mutants deficient in acclimatory long-term response to varying light qualities using

chlorophyll fluorescence imaging

Raik Wagner et al 693

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Identification of ORFs whose expression levels are regulated by a small transcriptional regulator, ssl0564, in a

cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Kinu Nakamura and Yukako Hihara 696

Chloroplast FtsH metalloproteases in Arabidopsis - an overview ofgenetic and biochemical studies

Wataru Sakamoto and Eiko Miura 698

Comparative spectroscopic studies of sensor of blue-light using FAD (BLUF) proteins, AppA of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

and YcgF of Escherichia coli

Shinji Masuda and Taka-aki Ono 700

Promoter preference and light-responsive transcription of plastid c factors in Arabidopsis

Yayoi Onda et al 702

Analysis of the as-acting elements involved in the light-responsiveness dpsaAB in a cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp.

PCC 6803

Masayuki Muramatsu et al 704

Cooperative actions of two independent light signals on the activation of psbD light responsive promoter in

Arabidopsis thaliana

Takateru Mochizuki et al 707

Both CP43' and flavodoxin play a role in protection from heat and oxidative stresses

Kouji Kojima and Hitoshi Nakamoto 709

Daylength and circadian effects on starch degradation and maltose metabolism

Yan Lu et al 711

Regulation of photosynthesis during the cell cycle in algae

Ondrej Prasil et al 713

A disruption mutant of HMA1, a putative metal transporter, in Arabidopsis thaliana shows sensitivity to high concentration

of Zn and altered kinetics of non-photochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence

Mieko Higuchi and Kintake Sonoike 716

Regulation of chlorophyll biosynthetic genes in response to temperature stress

Sasmita Mohanty and Baishnab C Tripathy 718

Photosystem stoichiometry is regulated by redox status, not by carbon/nitrogen balance in Synechocystis sp. PCC

Hanayo Sato and Kintake Sonoike 720

CFA1 is involved in the initial activation of photosynthetic electron transport under high light condition

Mari Kurosawa et al 721

Characterization of the cyanobacterial mutants that cannot grow under high-light condition

Tamaki Fujimori et al 723

Effects of over-expression of BNCBF transcription factors on photosynthetic cold stress tolerance of Brassica napus

Leonid V. Savitch et al 725

Roles of the transcription factors encoded in the plastid genome of Cyanidioschyzon merolae

Ayumi Minoda and Kan Tanaka 728

Circadian rhythm ofthe facultative cyanobacterium Plectonema boryamm in the dark

Kazuki Terauchi et al729

Characterization of a plastid sigma factor AtSIG5 responsible for Has psbD light-responsive transcription

Mikio Nozoe et al731

A nuclear-encoded sigma factor, AtSIG6, plays a key role in early chloroplast development in cotyledons

Yoko Ishizaki et al733

Trapping of a light-induced primary intermediate in photocycle of a blue light sensory BLUF FAD-Protein T110078 of

Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1

Yoshimasa Fukushima et al736

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Excitation pressure dependent development of alternative non-radiative charge recombination pathways in wild type and

F2 mutant of barley

Alexander G. Ivanov et al 738

Verification of real-time PCR for differential expression analysis of the SPS gene family from Arabidopsis thaliana

Luxmanan Selvanesan et al 740

Molecular and functional characterization of a Na+/H+ antiporter of cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp PCC 7942

Maria Billini et al 742

EVOLUTION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Phylogenetic analysis of light-harvesting antennae peptides from plants and bacteria

Yinan Zhang et al 745

Cyanobacteria viewed as free living chloromitochondria

Giinter A. Peschek 746

Artificial synthesis of Chi d from Chi a in aqueous acetone in the presence of a protease papain

Satoru Watanabe et al 749

The roles of sulfolipid, sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol, within the evolution of photosynthetic organisms

Motohide Aoki et al 751

Choroflexus aurantiacus and the origin of oxygenic, two-light reaction photosynthesis in failure to switch between

type I and type II reaction centres

John F. Allen and Sujith Puthiyaveetil 753

Distribution of green sulfur bacteria type FNR in various bacteria and archaea

Daisuke Seo et al 756

Interaction of acidic lipids with the photosystem complexes and its evolution

Norihiro Sato et al 758

Characterisation of higher plant cytochrome C(,a

Jiirgen Wastl et al 760

Anomalous chloroplast genome organization in dinoflagellates

Adrian Barbrook et al 763

Evolution of chlorophyll antenna complexes in Acaryochloris and "prochlorophytes"

Min Chen et al 765

Structural comparison of photosystem I and II: implications for the evolution of photosynthesis

Ingo Grotjohann et al 767

SUPERMOLECULAR ORGANIZATION OF THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS

System biology of photosystem I - formation of supercomplexes

Adam Ben-Shem and Nathan Nelson 770

A functional study of isolated RC-LH1 complexes from R. sphaeroides: excitation transfer, electron transfer and

quinone distribution

Frederic Comayras et al 772

Structure of Chlamydomonas LHCI-PSI supercomplex during state transitions

Joanna Kargul et al 774

Fluorescence quenching and exciton-exciton annihilation effects in individual chloroplasts investigated by fluorescence

lifetime imaging microscopy

Richard Cisek et al 776

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Putative photosynthesome from Anacystis nidulans: a supermolecular organization of the photosynthetic apparatus

Diksha N. Dani and Jayashree K. Sainis 779

Structural characterisation of an iron-stressed PSI supercomplex isolated from Thermosynechococcus elongatus

Karim Maghlaoui et al 780

Entropically assisted local order in photosynthetic membranes

Eun-Ha Kim et al 782

An oxygen evolving thylakoid preparation from Nostoc punctiforme Strain PCC 73102

Asa Nossed et al 784

Histidines probe supramolccular interaction of B850 cofactors in light-harvesting complex II

Alia et al 786

Supercomplexes of IsiA and photosystem I in a mutant lacking subunit PsaL

Roman Koufil et al 788

Polymorphic phase behaviour ofphosphatidylglycerol in spinach thylakoid membranes

Sashka Krumova et al 791

The arabidopsis chloroplastic NifU-like protein AtCnfU can act as an iron-sulfur cluster scaffold protein and is required for

biogenesis of ferredoxin and photosystem I

Toshiki Yabe et al 793

Synthesis of 180-Labelled (pyro)pheophytins including pheophytin-d

Hidetada Morishita and Hitoshi Tamiaki 796

Suppression ofpshP andpsbQ genes in Nicotiana tabacum by RNA interference technique

Yumiko Yamamoto et al 798

Structure ofthe core complex of Blastochloris viridis and of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Simon Scheuring et al800

Functional investigations on conserved chloroplast ORFs from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Ulf Duhring et al802

Modifications of spectral and kinetic properties of fluorescence in phosphatidylglycerol depleted thylakoid membranes

Masayuki Komura et al804

Evidence for a structured protein organization in grana thylakoids

Helmut Kirchhoff et al806

Dynamic interaction between LHCII and PSII in grana membranes fused with liposomes

Silvia Haferkamp et al807

PHOTOSYNTHATE TRANSPORT AND TRANSPORTERS

Rapid modulation of nitrate reduction in leaves by redox coupling of plastidic and cytosolic metabolism

Andreas P. M. Weber and Werner M. Kaiser 810

Investigations on the mechanism of ATP transport across the chloroplast thylakoid membrane in Arabidopsis thaliana

Sophie Thuswaldner and Cornelia Spetea812

Phloem loading type and photosynthetic acclimation to light

William W. Adams III et al814

Energetics of carbon export from the chloroplast at night

Sean E. Weise and Thomas D. Sharkey 816

Diurnal changes in gene expression and enzymatic activity ofstarch phosphorylase in rapidly bulking potato tubers

Xiu-Qing Li et al818

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CARBON AND NITROGEN INTERACTIONS

Regulation of senescence by aspartic protease: CND41 in tobacco and CND41 homologues in arabidopsis

Yusuke Kato et al821

Overexpression of the ferredoxin gene located on the downstream of n/Joperon in the green sulfur bacterium

Chlorobium tepidum

Toshinari Furusawa et al 823

Structural, mechanistic and spectroscopic studies of spinach nitrite reductase

Masakazu Hirasawa et al825

C3 AND RUBISCO

Evolutionary divergence in the structure of the rubisco small-subunit (3A-BB loop is not essential for assembly but

influences large-subunit catalysis

Srinivasa R. Peddi et al 828

Rubisco inhibitors of Rhizophora mangle L. in the light

Hirotoki Takemasa and John Cheeseman 830

Regulation ofphotosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Anabaena 7120 by co-overexpression of higher plant genes encoding

FBA, TPI and FBPase

Wei-Min Ma et al 832

Do current concepts of the C2 cycle need a revision?

Andre Richter et al 835

Ribulose-I,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase is excluded from chloroplasts by specific bodies in senescing wheat

and rice leaves

Hiroyuki Ishida et al 837

The cpn60-assisted reassembly oftobacco rubisco from fully denatured subunits in vitro

Yong Zhen-Hua et al 839

Enhancing photosynthesis by improving rubisco carboxylase activity and specificity, and rubisco activase thermostability

through DNA shuffling

Genhai Zhu et al 841

A divergent proteolytic fragmentation pattern of rubisco large-subunit is induced by tyrosine mutants from the small-subunit

Maria Gloria Esquivel and Joaquin Moreno 843

High temperature enhances inhibitor production but reduces fallover in tobacco rubisco

Stephen M. Schrader et al 845

Structure-function relationship between RuBisCO-like protein of Bacillus subtilis and photosynthetic RuBisCO

Yohtaro Saito et al 847

CONTROLLING C02

The transcript levels for three light harvesting chlorophyll binding proteins increase during acclimation to low C02 in

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Aravind Somanchi et al 850

Response to low carbon dioxide in the glaucocyslophyte alga, Cycmophora paradoxa

S. C. Burey et al 852

Identification of a c.wB Mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Ruby A. Ynalvez et al 854

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Multiple NDH-1 complexes in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: expression and functional roles

Pengpeng Zhang et al 856

Induction of the C02-concentrating mechanism is light dependent in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus

Patrick J. McGinn et al 859

BIOSYNTHESIS AND ASSEMBLY: PIGMENTS

A cyanobacterial monooxygenase, Slrl747, shows catalytic activity against pheophorbide a

Soichirou Satoh et al 862

Chlorophyll and carotenoid biosynthesis in green sulfur bacteria: a genomic perspective

Donald A. Bryant et al 866

Diversity of carotenoids in the prasinophyceae, primitive members of green plants

Yukie Yoshii et al 869

The mechanisms of light and dark protochlorophyllide reduction in vivo in angiosperms

Victor I Raskin and Amnon Schwartz 871

Effects of light on localization ofNADPH-Protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR) in barley etioplasts

Dragan Kovacevic et al 873

Identification of BchV, a C-31 hydratase specific for hypermefhylated bacteriochlorophyll c in Chlorobium tepidum

Aline Gomez Maqueo Chew et al 875

Protochlorophyllide spectral forms during plant development

Mohammad R. Amirjani et al 877

Carotenoids and carotenogenesis pathway in the cyanobacteria Anabaena sp. PCC7120 and

Nostoc punctiforme PCC73102

Mari Mochimaru and Shinichi Takaichi 880

Functional genomics of genes for the biogenesis of Fe/S Proteins in cyanobacteria

Gaozhong Shen et al882

Identification of a novel class of lycopene cyclases in photosynthetic organisms

Julia A. Maresca et al 884

Chirality at the central metal atoms of chlorophylls

Toru Oba and Hitoshi Tamiaki 886

The pufQ gene regulates activity increases in two enzymes ofprotoporphyrin IX synthesis in

Rhodobacter capsulatus

Himani R. Utkhede and William R. Richards 888

Expression of 3-vinyl bacteriochlorophyllide hydratase bchF from purple non-sulfur bacterium Rhodobacter capsidatus and

green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum in cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803

Tomoyuki Seki et al890

Characterization ofa nitrogenase-like enzyme catalyzing protochlorophyllide reduction from Rhodobacter capsulatus

Jiro Nomata et al 892

Chromophore-protein interactions in chlorophyll- and bili-proteins

H. Scheer et al894

Small Cab-like proteins retard chlorophyll degradation and stimulate chlorophyll synthesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803:

kinetic analysis of pigment labeling with 13C

Dmitrii Vavilin et al896

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PHOTOSYNTHESIS, RESPIRATION AND ALTERNATIVE ELECTRON SINKS

BC/I2C isotope labelling to study respiratory carbon metabolism in intact French bean leaves after illumination

Salvador Nogues et al899

Function of cytochrome b56l and ascorbate oxidase in drought/high light-tolerant wild watermelon

Yoshihiko Nanasato et al 901

Characterization and expression of potato triosephosphate isomerase isoforms

Sonia Dorion et al 903

Redox and site-directed mutagenesis studies of 5'-adenylylsulfate (APS) reductases

Sung-Kun Kim et al 905

Do cyanobacteria perform a photorespiratory C2-cycle?

Martin Hagemann et al 907

Photocontrol of respiratory type II NAD(P)H dehydrogenase genes: Cryptochrome, but not hy5, is a critical component of

light signaling

Matthew A. Escobar and Allan G. Rasmusson 909

Responses of photosynthesis in Viciafaba leaves to respiratory inhibitors

Keisuke Yoshida et al 911

Purification and characterization of cyanobacterial b6fm<i bd complexes

Wolfgang Schiefer et al 913

In vivo regulatory phosphorylation of phosphoew/pyruvate carboxylase in developing castor oil seeds

Karina E. Tripodi and William C. Plaxton 915

Degradation and conversion of starch are blocked in photosynthesizing leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana

Olav Keerberg et al 918

Photorespiration and respiration in leaves of various C3-species under low and high light

Tiit Parnik et al 920

The role of IMMUTANS gene product as an alternative electron sink in Arabidopsis thaliana

Dominic Rosso et al 922

Functional complementation of a cytochrome c oxidase mutant of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Galyna Kufryk and Wim Vermaas 924

Characterization ofNAD-dependent malate dehydrogenases from spinach chloroplasls

Tijana Cvetic et al 926

Role ofascorbic acid during interactions between mitochondria and chloroplasts to optimize photosynthesis

L. Padmavathi et al 928

Operation of an active cyclic electron flow around photosystem I mediated by a NADPH-specific dehydrogenase in

chloroplasts from panicles of Oryza sativa

Hualing Mi and Ji-Yu Ye 930

BIOSYNTHESIS AND ASSEMBLY: PROTEIN TRAFFICKING

Involvement of a type I signal peptidase in biogenesis of chloroplasts-towards identification of the enzyme for

maturation of the chloroplast protein translocation channel

Kentaro Inoue et al 933

Expression of iron-sulfur cluster assembly factor, IscS, from green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum in Escherichia coli

Hiroki Arai and Kazuhito Inoue 935

Characterization of the preprotein translocon at the outer envelope membrane of chloroplasts by blue native PAGE

Shingo Kikuchi et al 937

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C4 AND CAM

Behavior of organelle in succulent plants under drought conditions

Ayumu Kondo et al 940

Three grass species under water stress: some traits of C4 photosynthesis

Ana Elizabete Carmo-Silva et al 941

Photosynthesis and photochemical activity in mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts of C4 subtypes regulated by

environmental factors

Elzbieta Romanowska et al 943

Studies concerning the identity of the so-called 72 KDa NADP-malic enzyme

Maria V. Lara et al 945

Effects of growth light conditions on the organization of the photosynthetic apparatus in the C4 plant leaves

Y. Tazoe et al 947

Proteomic analysis of six different organs of rice; comparison of enzymes involved in photosynthesis and

primary metabolism

Hiroko Tsuchida et al 949

Rubisco capacity and the photosynthetic performance ofQ photosynthesis at sub-optimal temperatures

David S. Kubien and Rowan F. Sage 951

Carbonic anhydrase isoforms in the C4 CCM of Hydrilla

Vidya S. Rao et al 954

Effects of elevated C02 on photosynthesis and respiration rates in the CAM plant Opuntiaficus-indica

Nuria Gomez-Casanovas et al 955

PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND GLOBAL CHANGE

Can climate driven changes in photosynthesis be used to predict changes in the rate and temperature sensitivity of

ecosystem respiration?

Anna F. Armstrong et al 958

Effect of water deficit on thylakoid mjembrane of two wheat cultivars

S. Y. Suleymanov et al 959

PSII Photochemistry in C4 plants is not impaired by moderate water deficit

Ana Sofia Soares et al 961

Studies of photosynthesis and biomass by growth analysis and continuous monitoring of gas exchange

Hideaki Usuda 963

Elevated growth C02 stimulates photosynthetic enzymes and sucrose metabolism in developing sugarcane leaves

Joseph C. V. Vu et al 966

The response of plant carbohydrates to elevated C02. What have we learnt from FACE studies?

Alistair Rogers et al 968

CO2 enrichment and increasing temperature induce different effects on ontogenesis of Triticum durum L. and

V. faba ssp. faba L

R. B. Linke et al 970

Elevated C02 differentially effects photosynthesis and carbon balance in poplar stands, a four year study

Greg Barron-Gafford et al 973

Will photosynthetic gain of boreal evergreen conifers increase in response to a potentially longer growing season?

Ingo Ensminger et al 976

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A novel photobiological hydrogen production process

J. Benemann et al 978

MARINE PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND PRODUCTION

Analyzing the Prochlorococcus light-harvesting system: regulatory sequence elements and novel antisera

Anne Rediger et al 981

Primary structures of small subunit of RuBisCO determined with each individual algae in sea ice biota

Ai Yazawa and Yoshihiro Suzuki 984

Effects of simazine on the photosynthesis of the benthic diatom Cylindrotheca closterium

Elsa Elias et al 986

Isolation of intact Zoxanthus-symbiodiniwn symbiosomes and associated membrane proteins

R. Quinnell et al 988

Estimating phytoplankton primary productivity by means of PAM, FRRF, oxygen exchange and C-fixation

Jacco C. Kromkamp et al 991

Group-specific primary production in the Scheldt estuary

Nicole A. Dijkman and Jacco C. Kromkamp 993

GENOMIC, PROTEOMIC AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

Gene expression analysis of a terrestrial cyanobacterium under desiccation

Hiroshi Katoh and Masayuki Ohmori 996

Systematic characterization of in vivo protein phosphorylation in photosynthetic membranes by mass spectrometry

Alexander V. Vener et al 998

Proteomic analysis of the etioplast inner membranes

Lisa Blomqvist et al 1000

Monitoring offluorescence kinetics in a cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 for the genome-wide analysis

of gene function

Hiroshi Ozaki and Kintake Sonoike 1002

Identification of in vivo phosphorylated proteins in thylakoid membranes of Arabidopsis thaliana by electrospray ionization

mass spectrometry

Maria Hansson and Alexander V. Vener 1004

Chloroplastic RNases in Arabidopsis

Masahiro Kishine et al 1006

The response of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 to nitrogen starvation: transcriptomics versus proteomics

Vladimir Krasikov et al 1008

The expression profile of rice genes in planta related to the protection and regulation mechanisms against abiotic

stress in the light

Ismayil S. Zulfugarov et al 1010

EMERGING TECHNIQUES AND SYSTEMS

Forced oscillations - a new way to extract information from chlorophyll fluorescence transients of mutants, stressed plants,and of plants in a dynamic environment

Ladislav Nedbal et al 1013

Photosynthetic efficiency in the outer canopy measured by laser-induced chlorophyll fluorescence transients (LIFT)

Gannady Ananyev et al 1015

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Effect of tetracycline on wild type and ipt-transgenic tobacco plants studied by fluorescence imaging

Lieve Quanten et al 1017

LuminoTox: a tool for toxicity management based on isolated stabilized photosynthetic enzyme complexes

Nathalie Boucher et al 1019

Quantifying core complexes across taxonomically diverse phytoplankton - relating macromolecular ratios to light and

nutrient acclimation

Christopher M. Brown et al 1022

A multichannel automated chamber system for continuous measurement of forest canopy photosynthesisNaishen Liang et al 1024

Net carbon gain and canopy development of peppers and snapdragons following root infection by Pythium

Noe Ortiz-Uribe et al 1026

Fluorescence induction and relaxation (FIRe) technique and instrumentation for monitoring photosynthetic processes and

primary production in aquatic ecosystems

Maxim Y. Gorbunov and Paul G. Falkowski 1029

Cercospora infection in sugar beet leaves: analysis using chlorophyll-fluorescence and thermal imaging

L. Chaerle et al 1031

The contribution of cyclic electron flux (CEF1) to formation of proton motive force (pmf)

Jeffrey A. Cruz et al 1033

Primary reactions of the LOV2 domain ofphototropin studied with ultrafast mid-infrared Spectroscopy

M. T. A. Alexandre et al 1035

Imaging individual chloroplasts simultaneously with third- and second-harmonic generation and multiphoton excitation

fluoresence microscopy

Nicole Prent et al 1037

CROP PHOTOSYNTHESIS, AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Photoprotection effects in transgenic rice of C4 phosphoenopyruvate carboxylase and its application in breeding

Demao Jiao et al 1040

Effects of exogenous gibberellin on the biomass production of lombardy poplar

Tomohiro Igasaki et al 1042

Comparison of the light utilization efficiency in leaves and shoots in the photosynthesis of apple trees

Krzysztof Tokarz and Jan Pilarski 1044

C02 assimilation, architectonics and productivity of wheal genotypes in sowing

Jalal Aliyev 1047

Septoria leaf blotch: effects on photosystem II and on leaf pigment content

Fabienne Crumiere et al 1049

Engineering of photosynthetic CI metabolism: (1) formaldehyde-Assimilation and (2) augmentation of C02 fixation

Katsura Izui et al 1051

Photosynthetic contribution of the inflorescence and adjacent green tissue on grain yield in four safflower

(Carthamus tinctorius L.) genotypes under field conditions

Parviz Ehsanzadeh and Rouia Mahmoudieh 1053

Laser induced fluorescence spectra from leaves of wheat seedlings growing under insecticide stress

K. B. Mishra and R. Gopal 1057

Canopy and leaf photosynthesis in cultivars of Antirrhinum majus L. acclimated for crop production

in low or high light conditions

Jorge A. Gutierrez Espinosa et al 1061

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Genetic improvements for increasing solar energy conversion efficiency by microalgae cultures

J. E. W. Polle et al 1063

CHLOROPLAST FACTORIES AND TRANSFORMATION

Temperature-sensitive mechanism regulating post-translational stability of a plastidial to-3 fatty acid desaturase (FAD8)

in Arabidopsis

Osamu Matsuda et al 1066

Creation of transgenic tobacco plants with enhanced photosynthetic capacity using chloroplast transformation technology

Yukinori Yabuta et al 1068

ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL HYDROGEN PRODUCTION

Quantification of the light induced YJ-split EPR-signals from photosystem II in the S0- and Si-states

and the pH-dependence of "Split S("

Kajsa G. V. Sigfridsson et al 1071

Biomimetic models of the iron hydrogenase active site as proton reduction catalysts in light-driven supramolecular systems

Sascha Ott et al 1073

Tetrapyrrole singlet excited state quenching by covalently linked carotenoids of different conjugation length

Rudi Berera et al 1075

A new unsymmetric di-manganese complex supports five different oxidation states; progress towards artificial photosynthesis

Ann Magnuson et al 1077

Fabrication of an artificial nano-device on a design principle of photosynthetic systems

Mitsuru Hanasaki et al 1079

Syntheses and properties of novel cationic chlorophyll derivatives

Haruki Takatoya el al 1080

Construction of Hydrogenase maturation gene mutants from Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 for improvement of photobiological

hydrogen production

Muneto Wakai et al 1082

Improvement of photobiological H2 production of the heterocystous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

by genetic engineering of hydrogenase and nitrogenase-related genes

Hajime Masukawa and Hidehiro Sakurai 1084

Photobiological hydrogen production of hydrogenase mutants of heterocystous cyanobacteria

Fuminori Yoshino et al 1087

Function of immobilized membrane protein LH2 inside silica nano-pore

Ippei Oda et al 1089

Photoinduced intramolecular electron transfer in a MnI2I,II-RuII-(NDI)2 molecular triad leading to a long-lived

charge separated state - mimicking the electron transfer chain in photosystem-IINizamuddin Shaikh et al 1090

Conversion of cytochrome 7)562 into a photoactive quinone-binding protein

Sam Hay and Tom Wydrzynski 1093

A biomimetic approach to discrimination between sequential and concerted models for the oxidation of ubiquinolat the Q„ site of the Cyt be-/ complex

Jonathan L. Cape et al 1095

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